nahuatl

IPA: nˈɑwɑtʌɫ

Root Word: Nahuatl

A group of people indigenous to the Central Mexico region spanning multiple tribal groups including the Aztecs.
The polysynthetic Aztecan language spoken by an indigenous people of Mexico.
A member of this group.

Examples of "nahuatl" in Sentences

Zapata was born to a mestizo family who spoke nahuatl rather than Spanish.
The azteca language is used everyday - chocolate, tomato, metate, even the word yankee is a nahuatl word, it means stranger.
Our children are getting a good education they will come out of this school speaking english, spanish, mandarin, and nahuatl..
Segal's La littérature nahuatl: sources, identitíes, représentations, in which he appears to have been influenced by Bierhorst.
For these ancient poets the essence of life was summed up in the phrase, “In Xochitl, In Cuicatl”, meaning “The flower, the song”, a nahuatl metaphor signifying the art of poetry, “The one true thing on earth”.
The Spanish religious chronicler Fr. Antonio Tello, writing between 1650 and 1653, tells us that in 1531 Xitomatl was chief over a large Indian population, possibly speakers of Coca (a nahuatl dialect), around what is now San Juan Cosala.